re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

who waited longer?

Matt Damon waiting for 'rescue' on his planet, or the black pilot waiting for Anne Hathaway and McConeghey on the Water planet?


He had aged a good bit. I think it was 20+ years that passed.

Matt was on the planet for let's say 9 years (assume it took them a year to get there). It should have still felt like he just got there just like the other planet right? On the other planet an hour was 23 years no?

So just read this interview with Jonah Nolan, and he claims that the wormhole shut when Cooper was thrust out of it after his adventure in Gargantua. Can't say this makes much sense , since I thought for sure Cooper was on his way back through the Wormhole to see Brand and that she sent off a signal that her planet could harbor human life. I really want double confirmation from Christopher if this is the case, since as far as I'm concerned, all Cooper did was ride off to his death. Assuming Brand is in the Andromeda Galaxy (our closest neighbor, and really one hell of a stretch regardless), if Cooper was somehow able to go the speed of light (which I highly doubt), it would take him at least 500,000 years to reach the outer edge of Andromeda. And if this is the case, I'm guessing Brand went and started Plan B, and there's another group of humans out there across the cosmos. Here's the article for anyone interested: LINK

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But why didn't it feel like he just got there like the other astronaut?

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Because the black pilot was up doing stuff. He didn't look 23 years older than when Cooper left him, and probably only aged around 10 or 12 years while they were gone. Damon realized the day he got there that this planet was uninhabitable, then sabotaged his monolith, sent out false data in order to get rescued, then went in hibernation mode until rescue came.

Yeah, in guessing Damon had a few weeks before coming to his hopeless and cowardly conclusion. The other person had only been there for like an hour, if that, and then she was killed by the waves. Our heroes got the huge wave right after that.

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They made mention that even though she was there almost 10 years to her it was just like she had just gotten there.

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Because she was very close to the influence of Gargantua, the black hole. Seven years on earth was only one hour for her due to the slowing down of time. She had literally been there for just over an hour when Cooper, Brand and Wes Bentley's character showed up.

Matt Damon's character was not under the influence of Gargantua at all and therefore time went by normally for him. He had been on the ice planet for at least 30 years.

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But why didn't it feel like he just got there like the other astronaut?

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Water planet had a time shift. The movie made no mention of one on Mann's (Damon's) planet.

Unless I'm forgetting.

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all Cooper did was ride off to his death.

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Thanks for linking the article.

Nothing in the film tells the audience that the wormhole is closed at the time that Cooper blasts off in order to rescue Astronaut Brand.

And yet, Nolan is clear about this. Does he realize that you are correct in that there's no way that Cooper has a chance to return alive without the wormhole?

You are correct in that Jonah Nolan's ending is that Cooper dies in space on the way to the rescue.

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Therefore it is just hearsay.

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It's "hearsay" direct from the mouth of one of two persons who wrote the film's story.

Same.

It isn't stated in the movie that the wormhole is now closed so what Nolan has to say about it might as well be expanded universe crap.